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I will use Japan as an example of why its not the rest of the worlds job to give 3rd world farmers handouts. The Japaneese had a great idea that I wish my countrie would use. It was called "Isolationism". For many years the emperors in Japan sunk any ship that came near their shores and refused to trade with the rest of the world. Their unique culture thrived and flourished without ANY influence or goods from the outside.
As far as I am concerned if a small chain of islands in the pacific can do that on limited resouces , so can the rest of the world. There are no handouts in nature , you are either the lion or you are dinner.I preffer to not be dinner. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, let him figure out how to get fish on his own and maybe get rid of the competition.
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first,the emperors of japan did nothing but arrange flowers all day.the islands were actually governed by the shogunate in tokyo.and they did trade with the rest of the world.they just did it through the dutch at the port of nagasaki.and japan's culture did not flourish during this time,it became stagnant and fell behind the rest of the world.and that's why the japanese decided to embrace so much of the western technology,they did not want to end up like the rest of asia.